Isaac Price was pushed down to third in the standings after being tipped into a spin on the last lap of race one and getting stuck behind Lucas Müller’s teammate Tim Jarschel in race two. It was a dramatic end to RaceRoom‘s DTM Esports championship for 2025.
Race One
The Porsche was always rumoured to be strong at the Hockenheimring, and a 40kg weight added during BoP certainly suggested as much. It didn’t seem to hold back 2024 champion Tim Jarschel, though, as the man with the slimmest chance of winning the title from the four contenders took pole in the first qualifying session, with the others all inside the top four.
Unfortunately for him, he didn’t react well to the lights off the start, and by the end of lap one, he was down in fifth, with championship leader Price getting another one of his magnificent starts to lead. Florian Haase would lunge down the inside of him at the hairpin twice in the first eight minutes, but to no avail, as behind Müller would pass Alessandro Ottaviani for third.
In fact, all the drama would come on the last lap of race one, when Haase got into the back of, and spun, Price at the hairpin. This not only dropped the Brit to the bottom of the top 10 but also allowed Müller to take advantage and win the first race in dramatic fashion. It gave him a six-point lead over Price, who previously had looked comfortable.
Race Two
And Müller’s late pole lap in the second qualifying session would only make it worse for Price, although he would at least line up alongside in second. Jarschel would make up for his poor start to race one by steaming into the lead by turn two, with his teammate Müller down to fourth but still in a championship-winning position.
That position became shaky when Ottaviani came back for a second battle, but was sent into a big spin in front of the Mercedes grandstand a few laps later by Müller, who will be under investigation from the stewards post-race for his troubles.
Price, though, ran his own race, and less than 10 minutes in, pitted for the final time this season in an attempt to undercut the top two.
He hoped it would gain him the one place he needed to win the title, but Müller’s teammate Jarschel covered him off and gently slowed the pair down, allowing an overcutting Florian Haase to take the lead. From there, it would be Price vs Jarschel, with the Brit just needing one place for the title.
He heaped pressure upon the reigning champion, who knew his title fight was over, yet he fought for his teammate as if it were for himself. His speed was exceptional too, and meant that on the last lap, when Price was expected to make a do-or-die move, he just wasn’t close enough.
And despite finishing behind Price, Müller did enough to provisionally take the DTM Esports Championship in 2025 by just three points, in perhaps the most dramatic finale in series history.
Price has the right to be aggrieved at how it panned out, as he slipped to third behind Haase in the final standings, but it was almost impossible to choose between him and Müller all season.
“Overall, a perfect season, I didn’t put a foot wrong and did the maximum with a car that sometimes shouldn’t be there,” said the newest champion, Müller.
Both had their ups and downs, but there can only be one winner, and on the day, Lucas Müller did just enough to become the third German to win the title, and along with it, a real-world GT4 test to boot.
DTM Esports 2025 Race 11 results
- Lucas Müller
- Florian Hasse
- Tim Jarschel
- Alessandro Ottaviani
- Julian Klaffenboeck
- Niklas Houben
- Gianmarco Fiduci
- Isaac Price
- Ilia Drovossekov
- Philipp Drayss
DTM Esports 2025 Race 12 results
- Florian Hasse
- Tim Jarschel
- Isaac Price
- Lucas Müller
- Gianmarco Fiduci
- Ilia Drovossekov
- Leonard Krippner
- Alessandro Ottaviani
- Turkka Hakkinen
- Julian Kunze
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